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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 21
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The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin—Inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead destroyed for not engaging in the war with Benjamin—Wives provided for remnant of Benjamin.
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Now</span> the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
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And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
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And said, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
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And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
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And the children of Israel said, Who <i>is there</i> among all the tribes of Israel that <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/21/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 5: 23.">came</a> not up with the <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/21/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Church.">congregation</a> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>?  For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
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And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
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How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
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&#182; And they said, What one <i>is there</i> of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>?  And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.
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For the people were numbered, and, behold, <i>there were</i> none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
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And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
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And this <i>is</i> the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
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And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which <i>is</i> in the land of Canaan.
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And the whole congregation sent <i>some</i> to speak to the children of Benjamin that <i>were</i> in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.
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And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
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And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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&#182; Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
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And they said, <i>There must be</i> an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
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Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed <i>be</i> he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
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Then they said, Behold, <i>there is</i> a feast of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> in Shiloh yearly <i>in a place</i> which <i>is</i> on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
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Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/21/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 8: 13.">lie</a> in wait in the vineyards;
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And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/21/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 20: 1 (1-5).">dance</a> in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
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And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, <i>that</i> ye should be <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/21/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Guilt.">guilty</a>.
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And the children of Benjamin did so, and took <i>them</i> wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
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And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.
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In those days <i>there was</i> no <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/21/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 17: 6; Judg. 18: 1.">king</a> in Israel: every man did <i>that which was</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/21/25b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 12: 8; Judg. 17: 6.">right</a> in his own eyes.
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